Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez y Caviedes (18 April 1865 – 17 November 1933) was an

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ian politician who was the

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from 1 September 1901 to 31 August 1905 and again from 1 September 1912 to 31 August 1916. He was the son of José Buenaventura Plaza, a school teacher and, Alegría Gutiérrez y Caviedes Sevillano, an attractive tall woman with aristocratic features and exquisite social manners of Colombian descendancy. He married María Avelina Lasso Ascázubi, with whom he had eight children. One of them,

Galo Plaza Galo Lincoln Plaza Lasso de la Vega (17 February 1906 – 28 January 1987) was an Ecuadorian statesman who served as President of Ecuador from 1948 to 1952 and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1968 to 1975. He is th ...

, was also president of Ecuador. He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1900. He was

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in 1911.

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Official Website of the Ecuadorian Government about the country President's History

1865 births 1932 deaths People from Manabí Province Ecuadorian people of Colombian descent Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party politicians Presidents of Ecuador Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Ecuador Ministers of finance of Ecuador 20th-century Ecuadorian politicians {{Ecuador-politician-stub